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"There is a gulf already opening between those who have joined and those who have not": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The New Army in Training
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The New Army in Training.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.
First collected edition, first issue of this anthology which first appeared in 6 separate pamphlets in America of which only a few of each were printed. 16mo, original wrappers. With The Service Kipling on the rear panel. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 121084
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"Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise": First Edition of Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye; Inscribed by Her To Sally Soames
ATWOOD, Margaret.
Cat’s Eye.
London: Bloomsbury, 1989.
First edition of this "brilliant, three-dimensional mosaic... the story of Elaine's childhood is so real and heartbreaking you want to stand up in your seat and cheer" (Boston Sunday Globe). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally Soames- with best wishes- Margaret Atwood." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118434
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Advanced reader's edition of the first edition of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore; Signed twice by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Kafka on the Shore.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Advanced reader's edition of the first edition of Murakami's award-winning novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed twice by dust jacket illustrator, once on the front panel and on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. Cover design by Chip Kidd. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 125773
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First Edition of The Spinoza Problem; Inscribed by Irvin D. Yalom
YALOM, Irvin D.
The Spinoza Problem.
New York: Basic Books, 2012.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Kathy Irvin D. Yalom." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Henry Sene Yee.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145637
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First edition of Symonds' Sketches in Italy; bound in full vellum
SYMONDS, John Addington.
Sketches in Italy.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883.
First edition of John Addington Symonds' Italian sketches. Small octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges red, ribbon bound in. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 111022
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"Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being": First Edition of Ragtime; Signed by E.L. Doctorow
DOCTOROW, E.L.
Ragtime.
New York: Random House, 1975.
First edition of this work of historical fiction mainly set in the New York City area from 1902 until 1912 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by E.L. Doctorow on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118328
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First edition of Charles Baker's The Esquire Culinary Companion; signed by him
BAKER, Charles H.
The Esquire Culinary Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery Book Or, Around Europe with Knife, Fork, and Spoon.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1959.
First edition of Baker's famed Esquire Culinary Companion. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Charles H. Baker Jr." Near fine in the original slipcase which is in very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 127386
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“I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three": First Edition of Grant; Inscribed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ned and Andrea- Ron Chernow." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145665
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First edition of Mark Twain's The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893.
First edition of Twain's classic short story collection. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece by Dan Beard and 9 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. BAL 3436. In very good condition. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137551
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First edition of Secondhand is Better; inscribed by Susan Cheever Cowley to Kenneth David Burrows
MATTHEWS, Douglas; Suzanne Wymelenberg; and Susan Cheever Cowley [Erica Jong].
Secondhand is Better (2H=B).
New York: Arbor House, 1975.
First edition of this unique handbook to secondhand buying. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Susan Cheever Cowley on the front free endpaper, "To Burrows, without whose diverse and grateful help this book - and a lot of other things - would not have been possible. Susan." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142533
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Rare collection of four first edition Kipling indexes
[KIPLING, Rudyard].
Something of Rudyard Kipling and His Works [with] The Kipling Index.
London, Edinburgh, and Garden City: Various Publishers, 1914-1917.
Rare collection of four first edition Kipling indexes. Small octavo, four volumes, original wrappers. Contains: The Kipling Index [London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914], Something of Rudyard Kipling and His Works with an Index to the Volumes Published by Macmillan & Co., Ltd. [Edinburgh: R & R Clark, n.d.], The Kipling Index: Being a Guide to Authorized American Trade Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Works [Saxton, Gene F. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, n.d.], and The Less Familiar Kipling, and Kiplingana [Monkshood, G. F. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1917]. In very good to near fine condition. Essential for the Kipling…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 126447
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Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of S. J. Perelman's The Beauty Part
PERELMAN, S.J.
The Beauty Part.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.
Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of this marvelous play in two acts. Thin quarto, original wrappers and comb binding. In very good condition with a spot of toning to the front and rear panel, an inscription to the top edge of the front panel, a miniscule closed tear to the fore edge of the rear panel, a bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146913
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First edition of Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis; From the library of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
WIT, Joel S.; Daniel B. Poneman; Robert L. Gallucci [Madeleine K. Albright].
Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.
Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
First edition of this account where three former U. S. officials trace the efforts that led to the dismantling of North Korea's plutonium production program. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright." Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147577
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First Edition of The Handbook of Experimental Economics; inscribed by Alvin E. Roth
EDITED BY JOHN H. KAGEL AND ALVIN E. ROTH,.
The Handbook of Experimental Economics.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
First edition of this comprehensive critical survey of the results and methods of laboratory experiments in economics. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Inscribed by Alvin E. Roth on the front free endpaper, John: Volume 2 is coming out maybe this year. Best Wishes, Alvin E. Roth." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Marek Antoniak.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 95170
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"You've nothing to lose. You could make the experimental land for humanity. Over yonder, where we were, you could create a new commonwealth. On that ancient soil, Old-New Land!": Theodor Herzl's Altneuland
HERZL, Theodor.
Old-New Land [Altneuland].
Haifa: Haifa Publishing Company, 1961.
Second edition in English of Herzl's classic work, by the founder of political Zionism. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Translated by Paula Arnold. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 68046
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First Edition of Orhan Pamuk's Other Colors: Essays and A Story; Signed by Him and three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
Other Colors: Essays and A Story.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated by Maureen Freeley.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 123428
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First Edition of William Bradford Huie's In the Hours of Night; Warmly inscribed by Him
HUIE, William Bradford.
In the Hours of Night.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1975.
First edition of this documentary novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "July 27, 1980 For My Good Friend, Dan Montemarano With best wishes Bill Huie William Bradford Huie." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 121328
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First Edition of Appeasing the Ayatollahs and Suppressing Democracy; Inscribed by Dr. Raymond Tanter to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
[ALBRIGHT, Madeleine] [Raymond Tanter].
Appeasing the Ayatollahs and Suppressing Democracy: U. S. Policy and the Iranian Opposition.
Washington, D.C: Iran Policy Committee, 2006.
First edition of this critical analysis of Iranian diplomacy. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with full color photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by President of the Iran Policy Committee, Dr. Raymond Tanter on the title page, "25 Jun 07 The Honorable Madeleine Albright: Thanks for your contribution to our national security and to our Georgetown University: Raymond Tanter President and Visiting Professor." The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147352
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"Would I Find La Maga?": First Edition of Hopscotch
CORTAZAR, Julio.
Hopscotch.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1966.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket designed by George Salter. Translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144373
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First Edition of Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave; Signed by Him
TOFFLER, Alvin.
The Third Wave.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980.
First edition of the sequel to the author's Future Shock. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Alvin Toffler on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Joe Caroff.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 138916
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First Edition of Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving
FROMM, Erich.
The Art of Loving.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956.
First edition of this groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their capacities for love. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 140445
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First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Tales of Hearsay
CONRAD, Joseph.
Tales of Hearsay.
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1925.
First British edition of the first and last short stories Joseph Conrad wrote. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147553
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"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it": First Edition of Fear of Flying; Signed by Erica Jong
JONG, Erica.
Fear of Flying.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
First edition of this incredible novel. Octavo, original glittery sky blue cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Erica Jong 21 March 06." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith Seifer. Author photograph by Peter Trump.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145167
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From the collection of Joan Didion: First edition of Michael D'Antonio's Heaven on Earth
D'ANTONIO, Michael. [Joan Didion].
Heaven on Earth: Dispatches From America’s Spiritual Frontier.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992.
First edition of the journalist's objective exploration of "New Age" spirituality. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of Joan Didion with the original typed transmittal letter signed by the Senior Editor of Crown Publishers to Joan Didion laid in. The recipient, American journalist and novelist Joan Didion gained a reputation in the 1960s and 70s as a pioneer of the New Journalism style of news writing. Her articles and political writing engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, California culture, and California history. She also gained recognition for her sensational novels, including…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141834
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Rare first edition and only appearance of the Kipling Handbook
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kipling Handbook.
San Francisco: The Examiner, 1899.
Scarce first edition and only appearance of the Kipling Handbook issued as a single sheet in the San Francisco Examiner to be folded into 32 pages; the contents were all previously published. 16mo, original wrappers. Housed in a custom clamshell and chemise case.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 121255
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First Edition of The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal; Inscribed by Jared Diamond
DIAMOND, Jared.
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
First edition of this early work by the award-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Jared Diamond on the front free endpaper to noted book collector Larry Owens. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 5524
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First Edition of J.M. Coetzee's Diary of A Bad Year; Signed by Him
COETZEE, J.M.
Diary of a Bad Year.
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2007.
First Australian edition of this groundbreaking novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover design by Chong.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 131086
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First Edition of Conrad Aiken's Selected Poems; In the Rare Original dust jacket
AIKEN, Conrad.
Selected Poems.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry and verse. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With a partial rare original wrap around band.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 112323
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First Edition of Gunter Grass' First book; Signed by Him
GRASS, Gunter.
Die Vorzüge der Windhühner.
Berlin: Luchterhand, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Fine in illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Gunter Grass on the title page.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 574
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Rare First Edition of Willmoore Kendall's The Conservative Affirmation
KENDALL, Willmoore.
The Conservative Affirmation.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 34061
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First Edition of Edmund C. Bentley's Trent's Last Case
BENTLEY, Edmund C.
Trent’s Last Case.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. [c. 1913].
First edition of Bentley's groundbreaking detective novel, "one of the three best detective stories ever written" (Agatha Christie). Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece in color. In very good condition. Small bookplate and ownership inscription. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137405
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First edition of Palgrave's The Treasury of Sacred Song
PALGRAVE, Francis T.
The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of Four Centuries.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889.
First trade edition of Palgrave's treasury of the lyrical poems of the finest English poets. Octavo, original publisher's gilt-stamped half vellum, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In near find condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 111084
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Rare Photograph From It's A Wonderful Life; Signed by James Stewart
STEWART, James [Jimmy].
James Stewart Signed Photograph.
c. 1946.
Rare photograph of a scene from the classic Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart as George Bailey. Octavo, one page, glossy sepia photograph of a scene from It's a Wonderful Life, boldly signed by James Stewart in blue felt tip. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146560
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First edition of Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress
Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865.
First edition of Vol. III the Official Congressional Report on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 132562
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First Edition of Made In America; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
DERTOUZOS, Robert; Lester.
Made In America: Regaining the Productive Edge.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989.
First edition of the best-selling book in MIT Press' history. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 46017
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"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow": First edition of Aldous Huxley's Brief Candles; Signed by Him
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brief Candles.
New York: The Fountain Press, 1930.
First edition and signed limited edition of Huxley's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 143082
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Signed Limited Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones; Signed By Him
O'NEILL, Eugene.
The Emperor Jones.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928.
Signed limited first edition, one of 750 examples, this is number 472. Signed by Eugene O'Neill. Illustrated by Alexander King. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 43896
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First Edition of John Irving's The Water-Method Man
IRVING, John.
The Water-Method Man.
New York: Random House, 1972.
First edition of Irving's second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Hal Seigal. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145987
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First Edition of The Financial Reality of Pension Funding Under ERISA; Signed by Jack Treynor
TREYNOR, Jack L..
The Financial Reality of Pension Funding Under ERISA.
Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1976.
First edition of this work on pension funding. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jack L. Treynor on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 109849
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First edition of Susan Cheever's Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker; inscribed by her to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan [Erica Jong].
Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of Cheever's frank and moving autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "New York City January 1999 For Erica and Ken What can I say? No words could begin to express mt gratitude, my fond memories, my affection and my love for you both S C." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142607
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Song of The English; With 30 Mounted Color Plates by W. Heath Robinson
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Song of The English.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by Robinson. Quarto, original blue cloth, gilt pictorial to the front panel, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with 30 mounted color plates, lettered tissue guards. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 120821
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First Edition of The Ice Dragon; Signed by George R.R. Martin
MARTIN, George R.R.
The Ice Dragon.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2014.
First edition of this poignant fantasy novella by George R.R. Martin. Octavo, original boards, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by George R.R. Martin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art and illustrations throughout by Luis Royo.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147755
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“He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees": Robert Frost's North of Boston; in the original dust jacket
FROST, Robert.
North of Boston.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1926.
Early printing of Frost's second published book. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Aroldo Du Chene's plaster bust of Frost. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition with chipping to the extremities. Bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 115403
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First Edition of M. Parmentier's Instruction Sur Les Moyens De Suppleer le Sucre
PARMENTIER, M.
Instruction Sur Les Moyens De Suppleer le Sucre Dans Les Principaux Usages Qu’on En Fait Pour La Medecine Et L’Economie Domestique.
A Paris: Chez Maquignon aine, Librarie, rue de lEcole de Medecine, 1808.
First edition of this rare work on vinification. Octavo, contemporary if not original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 114368
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First Edition of the Author’s Classic Work on Benjamin Franklin; Signed by Carl Van Doren
VAN DOREN, Carl.
Benjamin Franklin.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carl Van Doren on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bookplate to the pastedown. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117881
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First Edition of Don Delillo's Running Dog; Inscribed by Him
DELILLO, Don.
Running Dog.
New York: 1978.
First edition of "the best Vietnam novel to appear so far, bearing some relationship to Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers and some to V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas (Houston Post). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Brian Light Best ever Don DeLillo." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrara. Jacket painting by Karl Korah.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141423
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First edition of The Doors: Other Voices; Signed by John Densmore
[DENSMORE, John].
The Doors: Other Voices.
New York: Alchemical Music Co, 1971.
First edition of the sheet music accompaniment to the Doors' seventh studio album; the first album released by the band following Jim Morrison's death. Quarto, original wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed by drummer John Densmore on the front panel. In good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117962
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FIrst Edition of Paul Samuelson and Modern Economic Theory
SAMUELSON, Paul A.; Robert Solow; Robert C. Merton.
Paul Samuelson and Modern Economic Theory.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983.
First edition of this collection of essays by ten leading economists survey Paul Samuelson's extensive achievements to modern economics. Octavo, original boards. Edited by E. Cary Brown and Robert M. Solow. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Essays by Paul A. Samuelson, Kenneth J. Arrow, F.H. Hahn. Hendrik S. Houthakker, Ronald W. Jones, Robert C. Merton, Richard A. Musgrave, Don Patinkin, Robert M. Solow, James Tobin and C.C. von Weizsacker.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147179
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King
BELLOW, Saul.
Henderson the Rain King.
New York: The Viking Press, 1959.
First edition of the author's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine first issue dust jacket. Jacket painting by Bill Preston.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 108921
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First edition of David R. Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*
REUBEN, David R.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1969.
First edition of David Reuben's wildly popular sex manual, one of the first sex manuals to enter mainstream culture. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Jacket photograph by Arthur Shay.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117058
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"We hope it may while some hours away & that you are not tired with the subject": First Edition of Wilfrid Noyce's South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953; signed by mountaineer George Band and from the library of George Sale
NOYCE, Wilfrid; Foreword by Sir John Hunt.
South Col: One Man’s Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1954.
First edition of Noyce's firsthand account of the ascent of South Col. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photogravures and maps including frontispiece. Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Signed by 1953 Mount Everest British expedition member George Band on the title page. George Christopher Band George was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest. From the library of mountaineer and author Richard Sale with his signed bookplate opposite the title page. Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141037
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Thomas Stafford's We Have Capture; Inscribed by Him
STAFFORD, Thomas P with Michael Cassutt.
We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race.
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
First edition, early printing of this exhilarating memoir of an Apollo space flight commander. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ken, Tom Stafford." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147235
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First Edition of Matt Haig's A Boy Called Christmas; Signed by Him
HAIG, Matt.
A Boy Called Christmas.
London: Canongate, 2015.
First edition of this modern Christmas classic. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Matt Haig on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rafaela Romaya. Illustrations by Chris Mould.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 125921
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Limited First Edition of George R.R. Martin's The Skin Trade; Signed by him and Rick Berry
MARTIN, George R.R. [Rick Berry].
The Skin Trade.
WSFA Press, 2013.
Signed limited first edition of this award winning novella by master storyteller George R.R. Martin. Octavo, original cloth, with black and white illustrations by Rick Berry. Boldy signed by the author and artist on the second free endpaper. One of five hundred numbered copies, this is number 27. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147754
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First edition of Theodora Thompson's Underneath The Bough; finely bound by Riviere and Sons
THOMPSON, Theodora.
Underneath The Bough: A Posie of Other Men’s Flowers.
New York: John Lane, 1905.
First edition of Theodora Thompson's collection of inspirational verse. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum by Riviere & Sons with green morocco spine label lettered in gilt, botanical gilt tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable. Ownership inscription.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 114286
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First American edition of G. Jean-Aubry's Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters
JEAN-AUBRY, G. [Joseph Conrad].
Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1927.
First American edition of this work on Conrad. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. Near fine in the original dust jackets which are in very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147716
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First Edition of V.S. Naipaul's Collected Short Fiction; Signed by Him
NAIPAUL, V.S.
Collected Short Fiction.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2011.
First edition of this collection of fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. With an introduction by the author.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 56745
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"Nicholas Tarvin sat in the moonlight on the unrailed bridge that crossed the irrigating ditch above Topaz, dangling his feet over the stream": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Naulahka
KIPLING, Rudyard with Wolcott Balestier.
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.
London: William Heinemann, 1892.
First British edition of Kipling's ambitious narrative. Octavo, original publisher's decorative cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 135051
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First Frank C. Pape illustrated edition of Anatole France's Thais; finely bound
FRANCE, Anatole. Translated by Robert B. Douglas. Illustrated by Frank C. Pape.
Thais.
New York: John Lane, 1926.
First Frank C. Pape illustrated edition of Anatole France's novel based on the life of Saint Thais of Egypt. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engravings and decorations by Frank C. Cape. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 90458
